Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

145.953 PROGRAM STRUCTURE. § Subdivision 1.Local administration of program. The implementation plan must require the commissioner to contract with appropriate private nonprofit and governmental organizations to administer the CHILD program on a local level. The local organization…

145.954 STANDARDS FOR PROGRAM. In planning for the implementation of the program, the commissioner shall: (1) establish mechanisms to encourage families to participate in the CHILD program; (2) establish mechanisms to identify families who may wish to participate in the CHILD pro…

145.955 DUTIES OF LOCAL ORGANIZATION. The implementation plan shall require the local organizations to: (1) recruit and train volunteers to serve families under the program, according to section 145.956; (2) provide ongoing supervision and consultation to volunteers; and (3) deve…

145.956 TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT OF VOLUNTEERS. § Subdivision 1.Training requirements. (a) The implementation plan shall require the local organization to carefully screen and train volunteers to provide program services. Training must prepare volunteers to: (1) identify signs of…

145.957 ELIGIBILITY. The implementation plan must ensure that all residents of Minnesota are eligible for services under the program. The plan must make services available on a sliding fee basis. The commissioner shall develop a sliding fee scale for the program. History: 1996 c …

145.9571 HEALTHY BEGINNINGS, HEALTHY FAMILIES ACT. Sections 145.9571 to 145.9576 are the Healthy Beginnings, Healthy Families Act. History: 2023 c 70 art 4 s 64

145.9572 MINNESOTA PERINATAL QUALITY COLLABORATIVE. § Subdivision 1.Duties. The Minnesota perinatal quality collaborative is established to improve pregnancy outcomes for pregnant people and newborns through efforts to: (1) advance evidence-based and evidence-informed clinics and…

145.9573 MINNESOTA PARTNERSHIP TO PREVENT INFANT MORTALITY. (a) The commissioner of health must establish the Minnesota partnership to prevent infant mortality program that is a statewide partnership program to engage communities, exchange best practices, share summary data on in…

145.9574 GRANTS. § Subdivision 1.Improving pregnancy and infant outcomes grant. The commissioner of health must, within available appropriations, make a grant to a nonprofit organization to create or sustain a multidisciplinary network of representatives of health care systems, h…

145.9575 DEVELOPMENTAL AND SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SCREENING WITH FOLLOW-UP. § Subdivision 1.Developmental and social-emotional screening with follow-up. The goal of the developmental and social-emotional screening is to identify young children at risk for developmental and behavioral c…

145.9576 MODEL JAIL PRACTICES. § Subdivision 1.Model jail practices for incarcerated parents. (a) The commissioner of health may make grants to counties and groups of counties to implement model jail practices and to county governments, Tribal governments, or nonprofit organizati…

145.958 YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION. § Subdivision 1.Definition. For purposes of this section, "at-risk youth" means adolescents and teenagers who are likely to be a threat to the health and well-being of themselves or others through gang involvement, alcohol and drug use, unsafe s…

145.985 HEALTH PROMOTION AND WELLNESS. Community health boards as defined in section 145A.02, subdivision 5, may work with schools, health care providers, and others to coordinate health and wellness programs in their communities. In order to meet the requirements of this section…

145.986 STATEWIDE HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Purpose. The purpose of the statewide health improvement program is to: (1) address the leading preventable causes of illness and death such as tobacco use or exposure, poor diet, and lack of regular physical activity,…

145.987 HEALTH EQUITY ADVISORY AND LEADERSHIP (HEAL) COUNCIL. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; composition of advisory council. The health equity advisory and leadership (HEAL) council consists of 18 members appointed by the commissioner of health, including but not limited to memb…

145.988 HELP ME CONNECT RESOURCE AND REFERRAL SYSTEM FOR CHILDREN. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; purpose. The commissioner shall establish the Help Me Connect resource and referral system for children as a comprehensive, collaborative resource and referral system for children fr…

145A.01 CITATION. This chapter may be cited as the "Local Public Health Act." History: 1987 c 309 s 1

145A.02 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. Definitions in this section apply to this chapter. § Subd. 1a.Areas of public health responsibility. "Areas of public health responsibility" means: (1) assuring an adequate local public health infrastructure; (2) promoting healt…

145A.03 ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; assignment of responsibilities. (a) The governing body of a county must undertake the responsibilities of a community health board by establishing or joining a community health board according to paragraphs (b…

145A.04 POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMUNITY HEALTH BOARD. § Subdivision 1.Jurisdiction; enforcement. (a) A community health board has the general responsibility for development and maintenance of a system of community health services under local administration and within a system of s…

145A.05 LOCAL ORDINANCES. § Subdivision 1.Generally. A county board may adopt ordinances for all or a part of its jurisdiction to regulate actual or potential threats to the public health under this section and section 375.51, unless the ordinances are preempted by, in conflict w…

145A.06 COMMISSIONER; POWERS AND DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Generally. In addition to other powers and duties provided by law, the commissioner has the powers listed in subdivisions 2 to 5. § Subd. 2.Supervision of local enforcement. (a) In the absence of provision for a community h…

145A.061 CRIMINAL BACKGROUND STUDIES. § Subdivision 1.Agreements to conduct criminal background studies. The commissioner of health may develop agreements to conduct criminal background studies on each person who registers as a volunteer in the Minnesota Responds Medical Reserve …

145A.07 DELEGATION OF POWERS AND DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Agreements to perform duties of commissioner. (a) The commissioner of health may enter into an agreement with any community health board, or county or city that has an established delegation agreement as of January 1, 2014,…

145A.08 ASSESSMENT OF COSTS; TAX LEVY AUTHORIZED. § Subdivision 1.Cost of care. A person who has or whose dependent or spouse has a communicable disease that is subject to control by the community health board is financially liable to the unit or agency of government that paid fo…

145A.11 POWERS AND DUTIES OF CITY AND COUNTY. § Subdivision 1.Generally. In addition to the powers and duties prescribed elsewhere in law and in section 145A.05, a city council or county board that has formed or is a member of a community health board has the powers and duties pr…

145A.131 LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH GRANT. § Subdivision 1.Funding formula for community health boards. (a) Base funding for each community health board eligible for a local public health grant under section 145A.03, subdivision 7, shall be determined by each community health board's fi…

145A.135 LOCAL AND TRIBAL PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE GRANT PROGRAM. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. The commissioner of health must establish a local and Tribal public health emergency preparedness and response grant program. § Subd. 2.Funding formula; use. …

145A.14 SPECIAL GRANTS. § Subdivision 1.Migrant health grants. (a) The commissioner may make special grants to cities, counties, groups of cities or counties, or nonprofit corporations to establish, operate, or subsidize clinic facilities and services, including mobile clinics, t…

145A.145 NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS. (a) The commissioner of health shall award expansion grants to community health boards and tribal nations to expand existing nurse-family partnership programs. Grant funds must be used to start up, expand, or sustain nurse-family partne…

145A.17 FAMILY HOME VISITING PROGRAMS. § Subdivision 1.Establishment; goals. The commissioner shall establish a program to fund family home visiting programs designed to foster healthy beginnings, improve pregnancy outcomes, promote school readiness, prevent child abuse and negle…

145B.01 CITATION. This chapter may be cited as the "Minnesota Living Will Act." History: 1989 c 3 s 1; 1991 c 148 s 1

145B.011 APPLICATION OF CHAPTER. This chapter applies only to living wills executed before August 1, 1998. If a document purporting to be a living will is executed on or after August 1, 1998, its legal sufficiency, interpretation, and enforcement must be determined under the prov…

145B.02 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Applicability. The definitions in this section apply to this chapter. § Subd. 2.Living will. "Living will" means a writing made according to section 145B.03. § Subd. 3.Health care. "Health care" means care, treatment, services, or procedures t…

145B.03 LIVING WILL. § Subdivision 1.Scope. A competent adult may make a living will of preferences or instructions regarding health care. These preferences or instructions may include, but are not limited to, consent to or refusal of any health care, treatment, service, procedur…

145B.04 SUGGESTED FORM. A living will executed after August 1, 1989, under this chapter must be substantially in the form in this section. Forms printed for public distribution must be substantially in the form in this section. "Health Care Living Will Notice: This is an importan…

145B.05 WHEN OPERATIVE. A living will becomes operative when it is delivered to the declarant's physician or other health care provider. The physician or provider must comply with it to the fullest extent possible, consistent with reasonable medical practice and other applicable …

145B.06 COMPLIANCE WITH LIVING WILL. § Subdivision 1.By health care provider. (a) A physician or other health care provider shall make the living will a part of the declarant's medical record. If the physician or other health care provider is unwilling at any time to comply with …

145B.07 TRANSFER OF CARE. If a living will is delivered to a physician or other health care provider who transfers care of patients to other health care providers, or if a living will is delivered to a health care provider, including a health care facility or HMO that delivers pa…

145B.08 ACCESS TO MEDICAL INFORMATION BY PROXY. Unless a living will under this chapter provides otherwise, a proxy has the same rights as the declarant to receive information regarding proposed health care, to receive and review medical records, and to consent to the disclosure …

145B.09 REVOCATION. § Subdivision 1.General. A living will under this chapter may be revoked in whole or in part at any time and in any manner by the declarant, without regard to the declarant's physical or mental condition. A revocation is effective when the declarant communicat…

145B.105 PENALTIES. § Subdivision 1.Gross misdemeanor offenses. Whoever commits any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor: (1) willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates a living will of a declarant without the consent of the declarant; (2) willfully co…

145B.11 EFFECT ON INSURANCE. The making or effectuation of a living will under this chapter does not affect the sale, procurement, issuance, or validity of a policy of life insurance or annuity, nor does it affect, impair, or modify the terms of an existing policy of life insuran…

145B.12 WHAT IF THERE IS NO LIVING WILL OR PROXY? § Subdivision 1.No presumption created. If an individual has not executed or has revoked a living will under this chapter, a presumption is not created with respect to: (1) the individual's intentions concerning the provision of h…

145B.13 REASONABLE MEDICAL PRACTICE REQUIRED. In reliance on a patient's living will, a decision to administer, withhold, or withdraw medical treatment after the patient has been diagnosed by the attending physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant to b…

145B.14 CERTAIN PRACTICES NOT CONDONED. Nothing in this chapter may be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing, euthanasia, suicide, or assisted suicide. History: 1989 c 3 s 14